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FENCE DIGITAL

Born in 2016 Fence Digital is the electronic imprint of Fence Books and publishes multimedia electronic poetry, fiction, and hybrid texts that reinvest digitization with materiality, treating the screen as a skin. This continues Fence's mission to redefine the terms of accessibility to contemporary innovative writing by sharing it across a variety of electronic formats. Fence Digital believes that idiosyncratic and alternative writing should be read wherever you are, whomever you are with, and on any device. It is Fence Digital's mission to publish books that interrogate, bedevil, and develop newfangled modes of experimentation by merging writing with the growing innovations available in digital publishing environments.

FENCE BOOKS

Launched in 2001, Fence Books publishes poetry, fiction, and critical texts and anthologies, and prioritizes sustained support for its authors, many of whom come to us through our book contests and then go on to publish second, third, fourth books.

The Ottoline Prize, formerly run as the Motherwell Prize and the Alberta Prize, is an annual series, generously endowed by Jennifer S. Epstein, which offers publication to a second book of poems or greater by a woman, as well as a five thousand dollar cash prize. Past winners include Chelsey Minnis, Harmony Holiday, Sasha Steensen, Laura Sims, and Ariana Reines.

Our second prize series is the Fence Modern Poets Series. This contest is open to poets of any gender and at any stage of career, and offers a one thousand dollar cash prize in addition to book publication. Past winners include Joyelle McSweeney, Prageeta Sharma, Geraldine Kim, Macgregor Card, and Paul Legault.

In 2013 we launched the Fence Modern Prize in Prose, a contest for open-form prose projects of any length written in English. Accepted genres include criticism, hybrid nonfiction, poetics, biography, autobiography, speculation, and anything Other.

From 2007 to 2015, Fence Books was publisher in the National Poetry Series, and through this prize has published books by Rodrigo Toscano, Douglas Kearney, and Jena Osman, among others. Judges have included Marjorie Welish, Catherine Wagner, C. S. Giscombe, and Bernadette Mayer.

FENCE

Founded in 1998 by Rebecca Wolff, Fence is a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. It is Fence‘s mission to encourage writing that might otherwise have difficulty being recognized because it doesn’t answer to either the mainstream or to recognizable modes of experimentation. Fence is long-term committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate, and bedevil other systems that bring new writing to light.